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Your favourite WTS publication?
by LoveUniHateExams in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i realise that starting this thread may make me as popular as a ginger stepchild but was there any wts publication that you liked, or at least comfortably tolerated?.

my memory may be deceiving me but i think the greatest man book was pretty good, leaving out the gruesome detail of the crucifixtion and wts doctrine.. also, can anyone tell me the list of books that ray franz authored/co-authored?.

thanks.
sparky1

My all time favorite! When I was a little boy this was my version of 'My Book of Bible Stories'.
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The Pope is not afraid to call the police about pedophiles.......
by sparky1 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
take note governing body of jehovahs witnesses (tm).

even the pope realizes that it is important to get the secular authorities involved in child molestation cases.

wake up and smell the coffee!!!.
sparky1

No praise for the Pope here or for the Roman Catholic Church. All I was pointing out was that this man (because of public pressure and outcry from his parishoners) is willing to face the enormity of the crisis in the church that he is the head of and that he is not afraid to use Ceasar to bring criminals to justice.

If the Governing Body really believed the scripture in Romans 13:1-4 then I think that they would be more than willing to enlist the aid of the 'superior authorities' in bringing pedophiles to justice.
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Another subliminal picture in the WT!!!!
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i just happend to wonder if the current issue had any hidden goodies.

imagine my delight!.

a gold star to the first person to correctly identify the image!.
sparky1

The big toe on Adams right foot looks like a large flaccid penis!

(I don't think I got enough sleep last night,yikes!)
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The Pope is not afraid to call the police about pedophiles.......
by sparky1 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
take note governing body of jehovahs witnesses (tm).

even the pope realizes that it is important to get the secular authorities involved in child molestation cases.

wake up and smell the coffee!!!.
sparky1

Take note GOVERNING BODY of JEHOVAHS WITNESSES (tm). Even the Pope realizes that it is important to get the secular authorities involved in child molestation cases. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!!

http://abcnews.go.com/international/wirestory/spanish-police-arrestpriests-pedophile-case-27131048
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Proof and Evidence
by Coded Logic in
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2. beliefs
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we can't explain something - therefore god.

checkmate atheist!.
sparky1

"What is important in not that man believe in the existence of God; what is important is that God exists."

"The Christian knows that he can claim nothing, but can hope for everything."

Na na nah na na.....so there.- Fundamentalist
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Proof and Evidence
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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we can't explain something - therefore god.

checkmate atheist!.
sparky1

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

Double and triple checkmate-Fundamentalist
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Reject "worldly" fantasies, pursue Kingdom "realities"!!!
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
have you had the pleasure of hearing this doozy??

i believe it was presented at the circuit level first, it has filtered it's way down.. the poor eldub opens with this definition of the word fantasize:.

"to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, ect.
sparky1

Babies live in a world of statistical truth. They MUST have their every need met by caretakers so that they can reach adult maturity.

Adult Jehovahs Witnesses live in a world of wishful fantasy. They WANT their every need met by a caretaker God so that they can be infantilized.
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Reject "worldly" fantasies, pursue Kingdom "realities"!!!
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
have you had the pleasure of hearing this doozy??

i believe it was presented at the circuit level first, it has filtered it's way down.. the poor eldub opens with this definition of the word fantasize:.

"to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, ect.
sparky1

RELIGION:

1. Boundless conceit concealed as utmost modesty.

2. Justification for regulating one's own behavior and coercing others to regulate theirs.

3. An inexhaustible mine of meaning for the mentally lazy.

The Untamed Tongue:A Dissenting Dictionary-THOMAS SZASZ
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130 years of protecting molesters
by berrygerry in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
another sad case.. two sisters molested (no intercourse).. wts gets warrants quashed.. http://www.canlii.org/en/sk/skqb/doc/2005/2005skqb165/2005skqb165.html?searchurlhash=aaaaaqahamvob3zhaaaaaaab.

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sparky1

konceptual99....if two men or two women that are unrelated stay in the same house overnight nothing is ever said or implied. Unless of course they 'may be known in the community to have homosexual leanings'. Watchtower morals and medical practices are confusing, corrupt, criminal and crazymaking!
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What Assembly were you baptized at...
by vilot in
1. jw
2. friends
i was baptized at the 1976 "sacret secret" dc at inglewood ca there must have been 50,000 people there..
sparky1

I still have my "YOUR WORD Is a Lamp to My Foot" book published in 1967. On page 220 is RECORD OF CHRISTIAN BAPTISM and it shows that I was baptised on January 30, 1971 at a Circuit Assembly in Nashua, N.H. I was 15 years old and didn't believe a word of it in my heart. I was a precocious little ba$tard and had read most of the Watchtower and Awake bound volumes from 1958 onward, most of Studies in the Scriptures, The Photo Drama of Creation book ( it was my own personal My Book of Bible Stories....my mother would encourage me to show people the 'good' people and the 'bad' people in the pictures) and The Harp of God as well as listening to many of Judge Rutherfords speeches on phonograph. So at a very young age I knew that something was remiss in this religion. At any rate, my mother kept putting the emotional pressure on me (she was an expert at mind screwing and emotional blackmail) to get baptised because Armageddon was coming in 1975 and I would die because I would be of age and not baptised. Wanting to know what was the right thing (I had no father or male figure that I could pour my heart out to) , I approached the Congreation Servant and the Bible Study Servant with my findings. The admonition of the Bible Study Servant was 'just stop reading those old books....they will only confuse you.' The Congregation Servant took things a step further. He said 'stop reading those old books. Everything you need to know is written in the "Jehovahs Witnesses in the Divine Purpose" book , "All Scripture is Inspired of God and Beneficial" book, the Bible and current Watchtower and Awake magazines. Study those, get baptised and keep busy in Jehovahs service. Armageddon will be here in just a few years and all this will be behind us.' My mother is long dead, the Bible Study Servant is long dead (he died in 1975.......) and I believe that the Congregation Servant is on his last legs. The 'invisible Armageddon' must have come in 1975 but I just seemed to miss it. However, TTATT is still TTATT.